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Page 45 of 821911 · PDF PAGE 99
…is the quality of malice, because he that boasteth himself “JT am I,” hath in truth no self, and these are they that are fallen under my power, the slaves of the Blind One that boasteth himself to be the Enlightened One. For there is no centre, nay, nothing but Dispersion. Woe, woe, woe, threefold to him that is led away by talk, O talkative One. O thou that hast written two-and-thirty books of Wisdom, and art more stupid than an owl, by thine own talk is thy IV h 97
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…s were at least allowed to live. Besides, the Arabs saw to that themselves. But no one was better aware than the Pope that knowledge was power. For all he know, and he probably knew that he did not know much, the Jews and the Arabs might get together and overturn the whole construction of society. Had he not in his own records the very best example of such a catastrophe ? There is a large number of excellent people, possessed of even less that the minimum amount of brains required to grease a gimlet, who are always boring us with the bogey of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
…d the Garter ,” which was unwound from that same tangled skein from out of which Browning had ravelled “ Fifine," and then , in the full power of manhood , in “ Why Jesus Wept ” ; which one day will find its historic niche in the temple of Poetry , somewhere between the “ Hudibras ” of Butler and the “ Endy mion ” of Keats . Though Crowley , as can be clearly seen throughout his works , is not only a great admirer but also a dis ciple of Browning's , he nevertheless vigorously attacks that great master's cacophony and wilful obscurity of meanin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
…ealed of the Con- cealed. The Head. Lux interna. The Most High. He. The Head which is Not. LinE 2.—Chokmah has additional titles :-— non Power of Yetzirah. * of Tetragrammaton. JN NIN It has also the Divine Name, 799°. Cor. II. (continued)— Linz 3.—Binah has these additional titles :-— NON The dark sterile mother. noe The bright pregnant mother. pnd SS pind: nin S'DN5 oiivine Names. Throne. LINE 4.—Chesed has this additional title :-— 5013 Majesty. Lint 5.—Geburakh has these additional titles :-— ha Justice. “IMB Fear. Line 6.—Tsphereth has the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
…ate? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known. Then from the muddy waters of our life, defiled …
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
…ate? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known. Then from the muddy waters of our life, defiled …
1913 · PDF PAGE 127
…se poems are un- mistakable, as are the frequent richness and vision- ary splendour of the imagery and the aptness and the transfiguring power of the rhythms.”—New York Nation. Mr. G. K. Chesterton also writes a_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the side of a mind concerned with idle merriment [sic!] there is certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout, and Nuit, and Ra, and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the Eng…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
… of this globe which it had sufficiently corrupted, the pursuit of knowledgeknowledge of any kindwas justly estimated by the people in power as the one and only dangerous pursuit. Even so, as late as 300 years ago, it was not considered very gentlemanly to be able to read and write. I am not sure that it is. In any case, it is a great error in education to teach these things. Grammar, we must never forget, appears in the word Gramarye, beloved of Sir Walter Scott, and grimoire, a black magical ritualthat is to say, any written document…
1954 · PDF PAGE 394
…two pupils about it. ... And I've never been able to see any more. This, however, it is a positive duty to tell you. One can acquire the power of seeing, with this kind of sight that is neither wholly normal nor wholly astral, all the natural inhabitants of the various places that one reaches in one's travels; one can make intimate contact with individual 'elementals' as closely as one can with human beings or animals, although the relation is rarely continuous or permanent. The conditions of such intercourse are complex: (a) one must have the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
…far as it goes to the credit of the man through whom the communication is made. It establishes that he is in possession of knowledge and power different, not only in degree but in kind, from those enjoyed by the rest of man kind. The history of mankind teems with religious teachers. These may be divided into three classes. 1. Such men as Moses an Mohammed state simply that they have received a direct communication from God. They buttress their authority by divers methods, chiefly threats and promises guaranteed by thaumaturgy; they resent the c…
1944 · PDF PAGE 40
…nly true in finite Equations. The card which must be exchanged for “The Star” is “The Emperor”, who bears the number IV, which signifies Power, Authority, Law, and is attributed to the sign Aries. This proves very satisfactory. But it became infinitely more so as soon as it was seen that this sub‐ stitution cleared up the other mystery about Strength and Justice. For Leo and Libra are, by this exchange, shown as revolved about Virgo, the sixth sign of the Zodiac, which balances the revolution of Aries and Aquarius about Pisces, the twelfth sign…
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
…occupy space and to exist, his formula would then be X*. This expression is equal to 1; whatever X may represent, if it be raised to the power of 0, (this meaning mathemat- ically “if it be extended in no dimension or category”) the result is Unity, and the unknown factor X is eliminated. A This is the Advaitist idea of the future of man; his personality, bereft of all its qualities, disappears and is lost, while in its place arises the impersonal Unity, The Pleroma, Parabrahma, or the Allah of the Unity-adoring followers of Mehammed. (To the M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 235
…universal , unless universal they cannot be apodictic ally true . Kant's reasoning runs as follows : Firstly , there is a sensibility, a power of being affected by objects , a passive faculty ; secondly , an understanding, a faculty recognizing the affectations of the sensibility, this is active , and responds to stimulation . The sensi bility , however , has its laws , and to discover them , we must separate those which are multiple from those which are one . The objects are variable , the passive functions of the mind remain invariable , the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 300
…ot impose itself, does not establish itself by any political agreement; like life, it manifests itself with a sort of fatality. The same power which directs the phenomena of nature, extends and limits the supernatural domain of faith, despite all human foresight. One does not imagine revelations; one undergoes them, and one believes in them. In vain does the spirit protest against the obscurities of dogma; it is subjugated by the attraction of these very obscurities, and often the least docile of reasoners would blush to accept the title of “ir…
1913 · PDF PAGE 526
…se larvae has been demonstrated to us in a peremptory manner by a rather curious experience. Several persons, in order to test the magic power of the American Home, asked him to summon up relations which they pretended they had lost, but, who, in reality, had never existed. The spectres did not fail to reply to this appeal, and the phenomena which habitually followed the evocations of the medium were fully manifested. This experience is sufficient of itself to convict of tiresome credulity and of formal error those who believe that spirits 228
1913 · PDF PAGE 300
…ot impose itself, does not establish itself by any political agreement; like life, it manifests itself with a sort of fatality. The same power which directs the phenomena of nature, extends and limits the supernatural domain of faith, despite all human foresight. One does not imagine revelations; one undergoes them, and one believes in them. In vain does the spirit protest against the obscurities of dogma; it is subjugated by the attraction of these very obscurities, and often the least docile of reasoners would blush to accept the title of “ir…
1913 · PDF PAGE 526
…se larvae has been demonstrated to us in a peremptory manner by a rather curious experience. Several persons, in order to test the magic power of the American Home, asked him to summon up relations which they pretended they had lost, but, who, in reality, had never existed. The spectres did not fail to reply to this appeal, and the phenomena which habitually followed the evocations of the medium were fully manifested. This experience is sufficient of itself to convict of tiresome credulity and of formal error those who believe that spirits 228
1919 · PDF PAGE 87
…ol that heedeth not the Play of the Magician. Me doth the Woman of the Mysteries instruct in vain; I have burst the bonds of Love and of Power and of Worship. 59. Therefore is the Eagle made one with the Man, and the gallows of infamy dance with the fruit of the just. 60. I have descended, O my darling, into the black shining waters, and I have plucked Thee forth as a black pearl of infinite preciousness. 61. I have gone down, O my God, into the abyss of the all, and I have found Thee in the midst under the guise of No Thing. 62. But as Thou ar…
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
…ue. And now herefore, o my Son, comprehending this Mystery by thine Intelligence, I will write further unto thee of these your Beasts of Power. f
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
46 THE STAR IN THE WEST As also does the song of Orpheus : O Hawk of gold with power enwalled , Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine , and the disc of flaming light Is on thee , seated in the prow Of the Sun's bark , enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee , thee girt round With leopard's pell , and golden sound Of planets choral in their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self -master of thy dam's desire ! Thine eyes blaze …